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Academic Year 2021/2022

Outreach for Dig Info Mgt (IS40810)

Subject:
Information Studies
College:
Social Sciences & Law
School:
Information & Comms Studies
Level:
4 (Masters)
Credits:
10
Module Coordinator:
Assoc Professor Amber Cushing
Trimester:
Spring and Summer (separate)
Mode of Delivery:
Online
Internship Module:
No
How will I be graded?
Letter grades

Curricular information is subject to change.

Many stakeholders, co-workers, and users lack a general understanding of what is required to maintain digital objects for the long term. This module will provide students with an understanding of how to explain, communicate, advocate for, and measure the impacts associated with managing born digital and digitised material.

About this Module

Learning Outcomes:

1. Communicate the underlying issues and history of outreach and communication in digital information management.2. Explain to role of impact in outreach and communication of digital information management.3. Communicate the challenges and nuances associated with managing digital information, to a variety of audiences.4. Define and differentiate outreach and “inreach”.5. Identify key methods for communication and outreach in a variety of different settings.6. Develop an outreach and communication project plan.

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Autonomous Student Learning

200
Online Learning

25
Total

225

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
The student will complete 12 online lessons and then complete a short quiz after each lesson. Then a final project will be completed.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Continuous Assessment: End of lesson learning quizzes Throughout the Trimester n/a Graded No
35
 No
Project: final project Week 12 n/a Graded No
65
 No

Carry forward of passed components
No
 

Remediation Type Remediation Timing
Repeat Within Two Trimesters
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Online automated feedback

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Individual feedback on final project, automated feedback on lesson quizzes.

Dobreva, M (2018). Digital Archives: Management, use and access. London, UK: Facet
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